The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 146
And the wind bore it blazing out to sea, flaming into the dark.
Who acts: wind · What happens: bear out, blaze, flame · To what, where: ship, dark
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:4225): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bore | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bore | nsubj |
| 4 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bore | obj |
| 6 | blazing | blaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 bore | advcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 bore | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bore | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flaming | punct |
| 11 | flaming | flame | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 bore | advcl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 dark | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dark | det |
| 14 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flaming | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear out | past | the wind | ship | to sea; out property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | blaze | gerund | the wind not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | flame | gerund | the wind not said here | the dark | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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